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Quote by Virginia Woolf
As for my next book, I am going to hold myself from writing it til

As for my next book, I am going to hold myself from writing it till I have it impending in me: grown heavy in my mind like a ripe pear; pendant, gravid, asking to be cut or it will fall. – Virginia Woolf

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Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth. – Virginia Woolf

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If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people. – Virginia Woolf

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The history of mens opposition to womens emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself. – Virginia Woolf

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Authors and lovers always suffer some infatuation, from which only absence can set them free. – Samuel Johnson

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A good style should show no signs of effort. What is written should seem a happy accident. – W. Somerset Maugham, Summing Up, 1938

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Writing can wreck your body. You sit there on the chair hour after hour and sweat your guts out to get a few words. – Norman Mailer, 1998

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The true way to be humble is not to stoop until you are smaller than yourself, but to stand at your real height against some higher nature that will show you what the real smallness of your greatness is. – Phillips Brooks

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